It is indeed a good day on the farm. Not only do we have blue sky and sunshine just in time for our party tomorrow night, but the granite man, Dino, has come and delivered our countertop. There has been a few weeks of delay and even though Dino called on Wednesday to tell us […]

I can barely contain my excitement as I type this. Stefan just called and…. OUR COUNTER IS BEING INSTALLED ON FRIDAY!!!! WOOOHOOO!!! Just when we started to wonder if it wasn’t going to happen at all, Dino came through. He really must have been riding their case because they managed to finally get everything stuck […]

About this time last year, we started looking into getting a Cool Bed or something similar. My Defender does not have an air conditioner and even if it did, most of the cool air would probably never reach Ayla. She has the back seat to herself (most of the time) and we’ve removed the double […]

I have to admit that I am not really a major coffee drinker. While I do enjoy a good cup of coffee (with plenty of cream and sugar to accompany…and perhaps some caramel flavoring…yum) I do not generally make myself coffee on a regular basis. I think we bought our first coffee maker when a […]

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might recall that we are still living without a counter top in our kitchen. You didn’t miss its arrival or anything like that – it still simply is not here. We ordered granite counters from an Italian guy named Dino who we haven’t really been […]